Gun registries are bad. Especially during the zombie apocalypse
Dunno who out there still watches The Walking Dead. But this week’s episode featured gun control. Spoiler alert.
Turns out the good guys kept an inventory of guns and who had them. A registry of guns, as it were. The bad guys found the registry and then took all the guns. They even knew there were guns missing because the registry told them. This strikes me as a bad idea in general. Even more so when it’s the end of the world.
November 16th, 2016 at 10:53 pm
I enjoy watching The Walking Stupid because it’s an excellent guide on everything you should avoid doing at all cost during any sort of breakdown of society. It’s my go to list of examples.
November 17th, 2016 at 12:53 am
TWD consistently wrote fatally-stupid characters and insisted on saving them every week. That it’s lasted as long as it has is a credit to its advertising budget.
November 17th, 2016 at 6:08 am
The Walking Dead might as well be a documentary about today. If you don’t see it that way then you live an extremely sheltered life. How do drug addicts continue to stumble through life? Generations of welfare recipients continue to thrive? Have you ever been to Walmart around midnight on a weekend? The walkers are all around us.
On point, the cold dead hands statement has never been truer. You’re not taking my gun.
November 17th, 2016 at 8:41 am
Only the bad guys keep the gun registry.
November 17th, 2016 at 1:40 pm
I thought that exact same thing.
Of course then there’s this oldie but goodie:
https://youtu.be/oHK-ioV8UE8
November 17th, 2016 at 3:14 pm
Ron:
And the military. Even personally owned weapons are listed/documented on base. They have attempted this even for off base guns, but not consistently.
November 18th, 2016 at 11:57 am
I haven’t watched the show.
But Sipsey Street had an epic “review” of this called “The Walking Stupid”.
Was talk of an episode where they needed more guns, and the sheriff says, “sure, one guy has a couple, I registered them myself, we’ll go to their house”.
November 18th, 2016 at 12:00 pm
From where I pasted this on “The Book Of Face”.
“The Walking Stupid.”
“Made the mistake of watching the latest episode of The Walking Dead last night. The writing has deteriorated badly simply because the situations these characters are put in do not reflect any reality whatsoever. So, how long has it been since these people have been wandering about like blind tap dancers in a minefield? A year and a half? Two years? Do you seriously expect me to believe that they’re that stupid? Stumbling about, dying of thirst, eating earthworms?!?
Follow me along here. So, most of humanity died in the first thirty days of this walker epidemic, right? The deceased now shamble slowly around unable to defeat locked doors. Now, even allowing for the fact that there’s no electric power generation (absent generators) and only, at any given time pre-apocalypse, just thirty days of food in the distribution system, that’s still a million crap-tons of food and bottled water just sitting waiting to be scavenged.
What? They don’t have grocery warehouses in Georgia? Nor Yellow Pages to find them? Ever see a grocery warehouse? Almost all are behind locked doors and chain-link fences topped with concertina wire. So, they have limited access and are defensible, at least against these speed-challenged biters. And you’re telling me that anybody with experience in Iraq or Afghanistan (or, heck, even watching teevee about it) isn’t aware that perfectly defensible Forward Operating Bases can’t be erected anywhere out of Hesco barriers, state highway department concrete road dividers and the keys to the county garage?!? And I mean constructable anywhere, anywhere, like around a natural spring or productive well.
And I don’t recall seeing any of these people toting a pair of bolt cutters. I mean, all these people died right? And when they died they left all their stuff, including food, fuel and ammunition, that had been previously stashed in storage facilities — again, behind stout doors, fencing and padlocks on individual lockers. I’d darn sure have a lot less difficulty with my suspension of disbelief if any of the dehydrated, starving, vulnerable morons portrayed last night — supposedly veteran zombie killers into their second year — if even one of them carried bolt-cutters and a Yellow Pages for the county they were in. This ain’t rocket science, folks. C’mon.”
November 18th, 2016 at 8:57 pm
I understand the TV show is not a documentary or a survival course . It is a freakin TV show . I watch it and treat it as entertainment . Is it realistic ? C’mon , it’s a show about zombies . I don’t watch sci-fi etc for life lessons or training . That is done with real life people with real life scenarios .
TV and reality are much different . No normal person that values their safety and security is going to ” register” their guns during any kind of world changing event . Neither will they report what they really have during calm times.
Those that want to pick apart an unrealistic tv show can have at it . I will watch it , then continue to live and train in the real world . I much prefer to pick apart the laws and impending legislation against our rights in real life .
That is my .02